Would you make and sell more of it, or have nothing to do with it?
The ethical choice is to have nothing to do with it, you
say?
Right.
But hold on.
The question gets at something deeper: what is value? Who
determines what value is? How do you put a value on value?
Let’s take each of these questions in turn.
Surely, the only way to determine if something is of value
is to find out if someone is willing to pay for it.
If no one is willing to pay anything for it, it isn’t of
(monetary) value (that high-school diary you’ve held on to is of sentimental
value to you, but is unlikely to find buyers unless you’re a celebrity). You
might make a piece of art that to you is a masterpiece, and your friends may even
coo admiringly about it, but if no one is willing to pay cold cash for it, monetarily,
it’s not so hot.
By the same reasoning, if someone is willing to pay for
something that in your eyes has no value, then both you and they are probably
better off going with their opinion. Why burst their bubble?
In fact, if you try to educate them by telling them they’re
wasting their money on something that has no value, they’ll hate you for it.
So who determines value? Yes, value lies in the eye of
beholder. Let it rest there.
There are plenty of people who see no reason to pay a premium
for the value in a Louis Vuitton bag, Evian water, and a Mercedes.
But there are also plenty who do. And how much value they
place on these products is reflected in how much they’re willing to pay for
them. And how can you argue with them? They see enough value in the product to
sacrifice their hard-earned money paying for it.
But if you’re in the no-value-in-a-Louis-Vuitton-bag camp,
then you might argue that there isn’t any “real” value in a Louis Vuitton bag.
That value is created by marketing – it is all “perceived” value – it’s just
marketing.
You’d be right; at least partially: marketing does
contribute to creating value – indeed, that is the job description of
marketing: to create perceived value.
But does that make the value created any less “real”?
6 comments:
Quite a classic example: different people have different opinions and tastes. And there is no reason to prove whose is better.
If customers see value in your product and want to spend money on it- deliver them that pleasure (unless it is dangerous for them, ex. health) and make them feel good about their wonderful choice.
Marketeers should be able to see the world through the lens of customers( which does not mean it should affect their personal choises, once they become customers themselves). Let everybody have the freedom of buying things they value!
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